A replacement name for Phlogistus blackburni Hintz, 1908 (Coleoptera: Cleridae)

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by  Justin S Bartlett

Australian Entomologist, 2009, 36 (3): 97-98 97
A REPLACEMENT NAME FOR PHLOGISTUS BLACKBURNI
HINTZ, 1908 (COLEOPTERA: CLERIDAE)
JUSTIN S. BARTLETT
Entomology Collection, Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries, 80 Meiers Road,
Indooroopilly, Qld 4068 (Email: [email protected])
Abstract
Phlogistus bicolor nom. nov. is proposed as a replacement name for Phlogistus blackburni
Hintz, 1908, a name preoccupied by Phlogistus blackburni Schenkling, 1906.
Introduction
The clerine genus Phlogistus Gorham at present includes 48 Australian and
one New Caledonian species (Corporaal 1950). These small beetles (ca 4-9
mm in length) are usually either uniformly black or brightly metallic in
appearance. Adults are known to be diurnal, volant, flower-visiting predators
of small insects (pers. obs.). The immature stages of Phlogistus are yet to be
discovered.
Schenkling (1906) described Phlogistus blackburni Schenkling for a black
species with fasciate elytra and 10-segmented antennae with truncate terminal
antennomeres. Hintz (1908) revised the genus Phlogistus Gorham and
erected Phlogistomorpha Hintz to receive four species sharing the elytral and
antennal characters just mentioned and designated P. blackburni Schenkling
as its type species. In the same paper, Hintz (1908) described Phlogistus
blackburni Hintz, a non-fasciate metallic yellow and purple species with 11-
segmented antennae and non-truncate terminal antennomeres.
Revised nomenclature
I have examined a syntype of Hintz's species in the Muséum national
d'Histoire naturelle, Paris and am confident that it differs greatly from the
description of P. blackburni Schenkling and from other reliably determined
specimens of Schenkling's species. It is clear that Hintz did not in any way
relate his species to P. blackburni Schenkling.
In accordance with Articles 23.4, 52, and 60.3 of the fourth edition of the
Code (ICZN 1999), I propose Phlogistus bicolor nom. nov. as a replacement
name for Phlogistus blackburni Hintz, 1908, which is deemed a primary
junior homonym of Phlogistus blackburni Schenkling, 1906.
Lectotype status of the Paris syntype of P. blackburni Hintz has not been
designated here because the remaining six syntypes (see Hintz 1908) were
not examined.
Acknowledgements
I thank Thierry Deuve, Azadeh Taghavian and Antoine Mantilleri (Muséum
national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris) for their kind assistance during my visit
to their museum.
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References
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Gravenhage; 373 pp.
HINTZ, E. 1908. Das Cleridengenus Phlogistus Gorh. (Col.). Deutsche Entomologische
Zeitschrift 1908(6): 708-715.
ICZN [International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]. 1999. International Code of :
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SCHENKLING, S. 1906. Die Cleriden des Deutschen Entomologischen National-Muscums,
nebst Beschreibungen neuer Arten. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1906: 241-320.